Review by Hannah for RockMyCommute JC Villafan’s music is a challenge to categorize into one particular genre, but you’ll find he is impossible to dismiss as an artist. Villafan can’t really be considered alt-country, neo-bluegrass, indie-folk, nor merely “pop” – because he goes …
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Artist Interview: Stu Larsen
Photo credit: Jarrad Seng Having heard Stu Larsen on fancy streaming services, I was excited to get information from his PR company. After a few emails back and forth, we decided that an interview would be groovy. Here are Stu’s responses to my …
Album Review: Erin Kay – Into the Light
Written by Hannah of Rockmycommute.com Looking at the cover art of Erin Kay’s recent 2014 release Into the Light, you see a woman with nothing to prove – fully confident and rejoicing in the light and natural splendor that surrounds her. It is …
Artist Interview: Liz Longley – Timeless, captivating singer songwriter
Photo credit: Alyssa Torrech If you only had thirty minutes to present your truest self, how would you do it? Well, for Liz Longley, she does it with her voice and her songs. The talented Berklee-trained singer-songwriter sidles up next to her listeners, …
Album Review: Ciaran McMeeken – The Valley – Tenor vocal and perfect guitar
If you like the sound of an acoustic guitar and a melodic vocal, this is an album for you. Ciaran McMeeken‘s The Valley is full of great guitar lines and beautiful lead vocal lines. It all comes together for a comforting, enriching audio …
Guest Album Review: Hannah of rockmycommute on Shivon Coelho’s Tales of a Songbird
The cover of Shivon Coelho’s 2014 Release is charming with pink text and a photo of Shivon in a frilly dress (check out the links below to see!). The title Tales of a Songbird is also lighthearted, and this whimsy carries through to …
Artist Spotlight: Eef Barzeley – Eldorado series
It’s not every day we run across such a phenomenally unique as the Eldorado Series by Eef Barzeley (Clem Snide). Conventional, traditional roots country music with some incredible lyrical flexibility, this is an explicit series in which Barzeley incorporates lyrics from his fans. …
Album Review: Courtney Marie Andrews – Leuwen Letters – Authentic, rootsy singer songwriter
Courtney Marie Andrews has the voice of an old soul. She sounds like she’s been on the road with Emmy Lou and Loretta Lynn for a while. Her songwriting is sophisticated in an understated way, and that’s a huge compliment. She delivers lines …
Luke Sital-Singh – “Nothing Stays the Same”
Luke Sital-Singh’s name has been on the rise in singer songwriter circles for a bit now and this recording from On’t Sofa shows why. Incredibly talented with a raw vocal that exhibits the right kind of desperation. “We hold out for some day …
Mark Moldre – An Ear to the Earth – Experimental singer songwriter captures the past in song
[Note: This album is from 2013. We rarely cover albums more than a year old.] Not since I first heard Pokey Lafarge have I been so impressed with an artist’s ability to capture a bygone era. A bit of the 1930s in sonic …
